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Upgrade OEM Cloud Control 12cR1 no BP1 on OEL 6.1 to OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on OEL 6.5 – Download

In the article you will have a look at the steps and guidelines for upgrading OEM Cloud Control 12cR1 no BP1 on OEL 6.1 to OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on OEL 6.5. This initial configuration is described here. The OMR is Oracle 11.2.0.3 database. Looking at the certification matrix on MOS you will notice that platforms are certified and supported.

Upgrade OEM Cloud Control 12cR1 no BP1 on OEL 6.1 to OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on OEL 6.5

In the article you will have a look at the steps and guidelines for upgrading OEM Cloud Control 12cR1 no BP1 on OEL 6.1 to OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on OEL 6.5. This initial configuration is described here. The OMR is Oracle 11.2.0.3 database. Looking at the certification matrix on MOS you will notice that platforms are certified and supported.Continue reading →

In the article you will have a look at the guidelines and steps to install OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on Oracle Linux 6.5 X86_64. You will have a glimpse at how to configure OEL 6.5 for OEM CC 12cR4 installation. Oracle 12.1.0.1 database is used as an Oracle Management Repository (OMR) database. I will provide pointers to MOS or Oracle Documentation for the supported OS and Repository database versions.

The environment I use is an Oracle VM VirtualBox running on a MS Windows host OS with OEL 6.5 x86_64 guest OS. I am not going to describe neither details of configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox nor details on installing OEL 6.5 and installing Oracle RDBMS binaries 12.1.0.1 and databases. More information about the latter can be found here. I would like to point out that you need to pay attention for the hardware and software requirements described here. My VM running the guest OS is configured with 8GB RAM and 80GB of disk space. The latter is to accommodate the disk footprint for Oracle binaries, stage area and Oracle databases. If you need to add disk space to already configured VM look at here.

In the article you will have a look at the guidelines and steps to install OEM Cloud Control 12cR4 on Oracle Linux 6.5 X86_64. You will have a glimpse at how to configure OEL 6.5 for OEM CC 12cR4 installation. Oracle 12.1.0.1 database is used as an Oracle Management Repository (OMR) database. I will provide pointers to MOS or Oracle Documentation for the supported OS and Repository database versions.

The environment I use is an Oracle VM VirtualBox running on a MS Windows host OS with OEL 6.5 x86_64 guest OS. I am not going to describe neither details of configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox nor details on installing OEL 6.5 and installing Oracle RDBMS binaries 12.1.0.1 and databases. More information about the latter can be found here. I would like to point out that you need to pay attention for the hardware and software requirements described here. My VM running the guest OS is configured with 8GB RAM and 80GB of disk space. The latter is to accommodate the disk footprint for Oracle binaries, stage area and Oracle databases. If you need to add disk space to already configured VM look at here.Continue reading →

In the article you will have a look at the guidelines and steps to install OEM Cloud Control 12cR3 on Oracle Linux 6.5 X86_64. You will have a glimpse at how to configure OEL 6.5 for OEM CC 12cR3 installation. Oracle 11.2.0.4 database is used as an Oracle Management Repository database. I will provide pointers to MOS or Oracle Documentation for the supported OS and Repository database versions.

The environment I use is an Oracle VM VirtualBox running on a MS Windows host OS with OEL 6.5 x86_64 guest OS. I am not going to describe details of configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox nor on installing OEL 6.5 nor installing Oracle RDBMS binaries 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.1 and databases. More information about the latter can be found here. I would like to point out that you need to pay attention for the hardware and software requirements described here. My VM running the guest OS is configured with 8GB and 80GB of disk space. The latter is to accommodate the disk footprint for Oracle binaries, stage area and Oracle databases. If you need to add disk space to already configured VM look at here.

In the article you will have a look at the guidelines and steps to install OEM Cloud Control 12cR3 on Oracle Linux 6.5 X86_64. You will have a glimpse at how to configure OEL 6.5 for OEM CC 12cR3 installation. Oracle 11.2.0.4 database is used as an Oracle Management Repository database. I will provide pointers to MOS or Oracle Documentation for the supported OS and Repository database versions.

The environment I use is an Oracle VM VirtualBox running on a MS Windows host OS with OEL 6.5 x86_64 guest OS. I am not going to describe details of configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox nor on installing OEL 6.5 nor installing Oracle RDBMS binaries 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.1 and databases. More information about the latter can be found here. I would like to point out that you need to pay attention for the hardware and software requirements described here. My VM running the guest OS is configured with 8GB and 80GB of disk space. The latter is to accommodate the disk footprint for Oracle binaries, stage area and Oracle databases. If you need to add disk space to already configured VM look at here.Continue reading →

In the article you will have a look at how to use some Oracle Virtual Box features to build two node Oracle 12c (12.1.0.1) RAC system on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL 6.5). The setup will implement a role separation with different users for Oracle RDBMS and Oracle GI that is, user oracle and grid are used respectively in order to split the responsibilities between DBAs and storage administrators.

An overview to Oracle Virtualization solutions can be seen here. You can see how to use Oracle VM Virtual Box to build a two node 11gR2 RAC cluster on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. For information related to building a RAC 11gR2 cluster on OEL 5.X/6.X without GNS click here and here. For information how to build a two node Oracle RAC 11gR2 11.2.0.3 with GNS (DNS, DHCP) and HAIP look here. For information how to upgrade Oracle RAC cluster 11.2.0.3 on OEL 6.1 to Oracle RAC cluster 12c on OEL6.5 look here.

In the article you will see how to configure Linux in an Oracle VM Virtual Box Virtual machines, install Oracle GI, Oracle RDBMS and will create a RAC enabled Multitenant Container Database (CDB).

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Guenadi Jilevski is a Senior Oracle Professional (OCP 7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, OCE 10gR2 RAC, OCE Oracle RAC 11gR2 and Grid Infrastructure Administrator, Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist,Oracle GoldenGate 10 Certified Implementation Specialist and OCM 9i, OCM 11g) with more than 20 years of industrial experience in high end Oracle technology starting with Oracle RDBMS version 6 up to 11g. He has been involved with multi platform High Availability Solutions starting with OPS and Veritas and Sun cluster as well as complex multiple node RAC 9i, 10g and 11g implementations on AIX, Linux, Solaris and HP. He has experience in deploying disaster recovery solutions with standby databases compliant to Oracle MAA and third party solutions such as Shareplex and Goldengate. As a former employee of Oracle Corporation Advanced Technology Solutions Consulting Practice in Americas, Guenadi has been involved in multiple visible high end projects for RAC enabling EBS, Peoplesoft, Siebel ERP applications, end to end performance tuning, architectured High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions to name a few. Presently he is working as A Senior Oracle Consultant in EMEA.

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